Therapy
Counseling: Who Gets It? For What? Who Doesn’t? Why Not?
Why, even more than physical health care, does mental health care go to so few of the folks who need it? Of those who do get help, what do they want the help for? Read More
3 Ways a Therapist Establishes Trust in Therapy
A strong therapeutic alliance is to therapy what a secure attachment is between parent and child. What ingredients enable a therapy client to trust a therapist?Read More
8 Reasons to Cheer for Psychotherapy and to Broaden Its Availability
A newly released study by the American Psychological Association has confirmed the many benefits of psychotherapy. It suggests ways in which psychotherapy can be a preferable treatment to prescribing drugs. At the same time, it questions what would be needed to enable more folks in need of help to obtain psychotherapy services. Read More
How Effective Is Your Marriage Therapy?
If you and your spouse have had some tough times and turned for help to a couples counselor, how can you assess if the therapy is genuinely helping? Many folks in couples counseling are uncertain as to what to use as a measuring stick. Whether the therapist is “a nice person” is not sufficient. Try this quiz instead. Read More